The Columbus Blue Jackets will look to put up back-to-back victories for the primary time this season once they journey to Nashville to face the Predators on Saturday night time.
Columbus enters the sport following a 6-2 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday night time.
Mathieu Olivier recorded his first profession two-goal recreation for the Blue Jackets. Justin Danforth collected a objective and two assists, Sean Monahan and Kirill Marchenko had considered one of every, and James van Riemsdyk scored the opposite objective.
“You need guys to get rewarded for enjoying the appropriate method, enjoying laborious,” Blue Jackets coach Dean Evason stated. “Everyone desires to attain, so for us to get scoring up and down the lineup, our protection to leap in and contribute was actual good.”
Marchenko has a team-leading eight factors by way of six video games. He joins Olivier and Yegor Chinakhov with a club-best three targets.
Goaltender Daniil Tarasov is 3-1-0 in 4 begins this season with an .888 save share and a 3.29 goals-against common. Tarasov is winless in two profession appearances in opposition to the Predators regardless of posting a .948 save share and a 2.05 GAA.
Nashville received each conferences between the golf equipment final season, edging the Blue Jackets 2-1 on March 9 earlier than defeating Columbus 6-4 on April 13.
The Predators will return dwelling following a 3-2, come-from-behind victory in Chicago on Friday night time.
Nashville erased a 2-0 deficit because of second-period targets from Filip Forsberg and Gustav Nyquist. Defenseman Brady Skjei scored the winner on the facility play at 13:07 of the third interval. Juuse Saros made 27 saves for the Predators, who’ve received back-to-back video games after opening the season with 5 losses.
Saros improved to 2-4-0 with the victory.
Nyquist additionally had an help, and defenseman Alexandre Service arrange a pair of targets.
“Gutsy win,” Predators coach Andrew Brunette stated. “You are down two on the street … and discover a method to have some massive kills, and an enormous shorty. (Forsberg) made an excellent play to sort of get us again within the recreation, after which Brady on the finish. So it wasn’t fairly, however we did some issues, and (we) nonetheless proceed to construct our recreation right here somewhat bit.”
Forsberg has two targets and three assists throughout his five-game level streak.
“It began somewhat sluggish, clearly,” he stated. “I believed they have been higher within the first, however then we began preventing again. … I believed the penalty kill performed wonderful, after which the facility play stepped up big there within the third and bought us a win.”
Goaltender Scott Wedgewood misplaced his lone begin this season 4-3 to the Dallas Stars on Oct. 10. In 4 profession appearances in opposition to the Blue Jackets, Wedgewood is 1-1-2 with a .919 save share and a 2.65 GAA.
Saturday will mark the primary of two conferences between the Blue Jackets and Predators this season. Nashville will journey to Columbus on April 1 to conclude the season sequence.
–Subject Degree Media
